Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast,

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Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 258. We're reading paragraphs 1965 to 1969. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach. It's amazing. But you can also follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting

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daily updates and daily notifications. Today is day 258 reading paragraphs 1965 to 1969.

One of the things, you know, we started yesterday by

talking about the old law and how the old law is good, right? It is holy. It is, what else

it says it's holy? It's spiritual. It's good, but it's imperfect. Not imperfect in the sense

that it's in any way defective other than the fact that it doesn't give us the power to actually accomplish to live out the law of God.

Not only that, but it is a step on the way to prepare us, to prepare humanity for the deeper law, a fuller law.

Now, today we're going to talk about the fact that this fuller law is not only the new law, the law of the gospel, not only does it give us

the Holy Spirit, not only Jesus Christ give us the Holy Spirit, but also the law, this law, the new law,

goes beyond actions and tries to get to, I say tries to get to, it does when it lives it out,

when we live it out, it gets to the heart. It goes beyond the actions

and gets to the heart. In this law of the gospel, so we say this, like this, it fulfills,

refines, surpasses, and leads the old law to its perfection. So good. Again, that's paragraph

1967, that the law of the gospel fulfills the old law. It refines the old law.

It surpasses the old law, and it leads the old law, old law to its perfection, which is so

incredibly important for us. The new law fulfills the divine promises by elevating and orienting

them to the kingdom of heaven, which is just, what a gift, total gift for us.

So in order to prepare our hearts for that, let us do what we always do and call upon the

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